Italy and American female imagination /
"Through an analysis of literature and film, traces the significance of Italy--the physical place and imagined idea--to the identities of middle-class American women from the nineteenth century onward. Writers examined include Harriet Beecher Stowe, Margaret Fuller, Edith Wharton, Constance Fen...
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Italy and American female imagination
- Precursors : legitimizing female desire in Margaret Fuller's and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Italian writings, 1847-1862
- Turn-of-the-century expats : emerging expatriate consciousness in Constance Fenimore Woolson's and Edith Wharton's Italian stories, 1890-1920
- Modern rebels : breaking the rules of US patriarchy in mid-century American women-in-Italy films, 1953-1962
- Feminine thinkers : resisting categorical thinking in Elizabeth Spencer's and Mary McCarthy's Italy-centered texts, 1948-1965
- Post-romance Italy : breaking the heterosexual romance dyad in Elizabeth Gilbert's and Andrea Lee's Italy tales, 2002-2018
- Epilogue: Romantics/post romantic : actual women encounter twenty-first century Italy.